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Content validation of the Adapted Cycles Intervention Program (PROCICLOS-A) for children with Speech Sound Disorder -
Carolina Kuntz Ayub1, Haydée Fiszbein Wertzner2
1Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Reabilitação, Departamento de Fonoaudiologia, Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo - USP - São Paulo (SP), Brasil.
Purpose:
This document aims to describe and validate the activities of the Adapted Cycles Intervention Program (PROCICLOS-A) for children with speech sound disorders.
Method:
The study employs a prospective, cross-sectional design focusing on quantitative analysis. PROCICLOS-A consists of 12 sessions, with a specific phonological process selected as the target for every six sessions. In total, two phonological processes and two target sounds are chosen for each cycle, resulting in four target sounds for the intervention. Each of the 12 sessions includes six types of activities: auditory bombardment, conducted at the beginning and end of each session, training in the production of the target sound, focusing on the articulation zone, mode, and voicing, auditory recognition of the target sound and auditory discrimination using minimal pairs, activities with minimal pairs to aid in understanding the phonological rule, training with words containing the target sound in initial, medial, and final positions, and phonological awareness activities. Specific materials were developed to implement each of these strategies. A total of twenty expert judges (EJs) participated in evaluating the activities, assessing all five activities along with their 14 respective strategies. To analyze the level of agreement among the judges, we utilized an alternate coefficient known as AC1, proposed by Gwet (2014). This analysis focused on the judges' responses related to the activities.
Results:
The agreement among the ten EJs for the activities was measured at 0.7125, indicating a moderate level of agreement.
Conclusion:
The activities utilized in PROCICLOS-A for children with speech disorders demonstrated a good level of agreement for all the materials produced.
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